Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

Respectability offends my taste.

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

A married philosopher is a comic character.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.